British electronic arts duo Gibson / Martelli make live simulations using performance capture, computer generated models and an array of technologies including Virtual Reality. Artworks of infinite duration are built within game engines where surround sound heightens the sense of immersion. Playfully addressing the position of the self, the artists examine ideas of player, performer and visitor – intertwining familiar tropes of videogames and art traditions of figure & landscape.’

‘Gibson/Martelli’s hybrid practice transcends the disciplinary boundaries that separate dance, film and contemporary art…In their work reality and fantasy are both staged as competing or complementary illusions.’D. Surman ‘Performance In Disguise: Notes on Gibson/Martelli’

Bruno Martelli graduated from Central St. Martins and Ruth Gibson from University of Kent at Canterbury. Their worldwide commissions include residencies in North America, China, Australia and New Zealand and exhibitions at The Barbican Gallery, Detroit Institute for Art, and The Venice Biennale.

Recent solo shows include ‘Big Bob’ (2015) at Jaffe-Friede Gallery in Hanover, USA, ‘MAN A’(2015) at UNION gallery, London and ‘80ºN’ (2014) at QUAD Gallery in Derby. They have exhibited in London in group shows: ’Complicity, Artifice & Illusion’ (2016) at Collyer Bristow Gallery, ’Shape_Shifters’ (2016) at Arthouse1, ’Splintered Binary’ (2017) at Gossamer Fog and ‘Now Play This’ (2017) at Somerset House.

Nominated for a British Academy of Film & Television Arts (BAFTA) the duo are recipients of several awards: a Henry Moore Foundation New Commission, a National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts (NESTA) Award and in 2015 they won the Lumen Gold Prize.

Their current film project ‘We Are Here And We are Everywhere at Once’ recently premiered at Pah Homestead in Auckland in July. Gibson is the Creative Fellow at Centre for Dance Research at Coventry University. The artists live and work in London.